‘Trainspotting’ Sequel Lands At TriStar With Original Crew

Sony’s TriStar Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Danny Boyle’s long-discussed sequel to Trainspotting. Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and all the principal cast of the 1996 Miramax film based on Irvine Welsh’s novel — Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle — will be back. Shooting will begin in late spring 2016 with an eye toward a 2017 release.

At the Telluride Film Festival in September, Boyle told Deadline that Hodge’s script for what they’re calling Trainspotting 2 is terrific, that the actors all wanted to do it, and reiterated it will be his next film depending on the actors’ U.S. TV schedules (Miller stars on CBS’ Elementary and Carlyle is a regular on ABC’s One Upon A Time).

Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman worked with Boyle on eight films while at Fox including Oscar Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire, and he and TriStar’s Hannah Mingella scooped up this one before lunch after reading Hodge’s script last night. The screenplay is based on Welsh’s Trainspotting follow-up book Porno.

Hodge also penned the screenplays for the Boyle-directed A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach and Trance.

7 Comments

bill blankenship • on Dec 4, 2015 6:31 pm

OOH! i can’t wait for a Boyle’s adaptation of what he called “not a great book”. should be… great.

or just take it from the star…

“It would be a terrible shame to make a sequel to Trainspotting if it wasn’t as good… I read the book and I didn’t think it was as good as Trainspotting. I felt it was exactly the same story… there was nothing new in it.” -Ewan McGregor

There are not many people who are addicts that last 19 days never mind 19years with the money that Renton left with at the end of this brilliant film.

Datrick Puffy • on Dec 5, 2015 12:14 pm

Yes. Having all these characters still be alive and (relatively) well after 10 years (or the actual 20 years it will be, lol) will make this movie less grounded in reality than Ant-Man.

Scott • on Dec 5, 2015 7:05 pm

You are wrong, 19 days isn’t even long enough to form an addiction of a physical nature, at my Methadone clinic there are lots of life long addicts, mostly the ones who do not have chronic pain as a reason for starting/maintaining their opiate use, true addiction takes years to form, and even longer for the addict to hit rock bottom, the only guy who i wouldn’t expect to be alive is the straight edge guy who got HIV, although they live in the UK where the NHS provides free health care unlike the majority of time in America(especially with the amount of greed that comes with capitalism), Heroin is even provided for free to long term addicts,

bill blankenship • on Dec 7, 2015 12:31 pm

19 days is an over exaggeration. but to have all these characters alive 2 decades later (most of whom AREN’T in any kind of program) is VERY unrealistic. every heroin user i’ve talked to about this film agrees that Renton has a 95% chance of being dead within a week with his habits and the amount of money he had at the end.